Coping with our extreme environment

from the adapting-to-Mother-Earth's-tantrums dept.
Senior Associate Douglas Mulhall has authored Preparing for Armageddon: How We Can Survive Mega-Disasters in the May-June issue of The Futurist: "A host of resilient technologies based on genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology — GRAIN for short — will help us adapt to environmental extremes" including possibilities such as rapid-escape vehicles, extreme engineering, robotic work crews, environmentally benign products, and disaster-proof people. Not available online, you'll need to buy a paper copy (neither futuristic nor environmentally benign — why can't The Futurist get online?).